Finding Rizzini
Journeying to Italy for an affirming factory visit I’ve been mystified and, in truth, a bit annoyed since buying my first Rizzini nearly 30...
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Golden Ticket
These dogs can hunt Is there a breed more universally beloved than the golden retriever? Goldens are a moveable feast of sunshine: parting the...
Smitten by Snipe
The year that The Beatles released their first LP, two schoolboys—one shotgun between them—walked a Northumbrian ditch bank. Suddenly a long-billed little bird sprang...
Alberta Fowling
Duck & goose hunting with Black Dog Outfitters Although I’ve been to the Canadian prairie many times and hunted from stand-up willow blinds with...
Ferlach’s Finest
The unique offerings of Karl Hauptmann Jagdwaffen My introduction to Ferlach gunmaking happened when I was 14. I stepped into a small gunshop near...
Alaska’s Bird of Fire
Sharp-tailed grouse in the Last Frontier Some 11,000 years ago, Alaska looked a lot different than it does today. While the rest of North...
Celebrating Sweetgrass
A Wyoming sporting paradise Descending from the clouds and touching down at the Gillette, Wyoming, airport, you can practically smell the Ponderosa-pine and sage-studded...
A Wingshooter's Guide to Argentina
A primer on hunting & shooting in Argentina International travel by American hunters can be traced back to the 1800s, when epic voyages by...
Walking Up Scotland
In pursuit of Highlands red grouse The dog dropped and froze in the same instant. After a pause, he eased forward carefully, one foot...
Heartland Bobs
Pursuing wild coveys across the Midwest There I sat with my pair of dogs, a setter and a Labrador, atop a hill in the...
Classic Pheasant Guns
A full field of timeless rooster-takers John Browning didn’t know he was on the path to inventing the first classic pheasant gun when he...
Pointers in Africa
Walk-up hunting in the South African Highlands The Milky Way paints itself overhead, and satellites streak across the southern constellations, their paths lit like...